North Island piopio

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North Island piopio
A mounted specimen of the North Island piopio in the collection of Te Papa

Extinct (1955)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Oriolidae
Genus: †Turnagra
Species:
†T. tanagra
Binomial name
†Turnagra tanagra
(Schlegel, 1866)
Synonyms
  • Otagon tanagra
  • Turdus crassirostus turnagra
  • Turnagra capensis tanagra
  • Turnagra capensis turnagra
  • Turnagra Hectori
  • Turnagra turnagra

The North Island piopio (Turnagra tanagra) was a

extinct
.

Taxonomy and systematics

North Island piopio in front, South Island piopio at rear.

For many years, the North Island piopio was considered to be conspecific with the South Island piopio, but the two are now regarded as two separate species due to their pronounced differences in external appearance and osteology (Olson et al., 1983). An alternate name for the North Island piopio is the North Island thrush.

Status

The North Island piopio was

mustelids
also being significant from the 1880s onward.

References

  • Bell, R. & Singleton, L. (1974): A sighting of the Piopio or Native Thrush. Notornis 21(3): 268–269. PDF fulltext
  • Buller, Walter L. (1873): A history of the birds of New Zealand (1st edition). van Woorst, London
  • Buller, Walter L. (1888): A history of the birds of New Zealand (2nd edition) 2. Published by the author, London.
  • Medway, David G. (1968): Records of the Huia, North Island Thrush and North Island Kokako from the diaries of Joseph Robert Annabell (1857–1924) Notornis 15(3): 177–192. PDF fulltext
  • Olsen, Malcolm (1993): North Island Piopio – a possible 1930s record. Notornis 40(1): 26. PDF fulltext
  • Olson, Storrs L.; Parkes, K. C.; Clench, M. H. & Borecky, S. R. (1983): The affinities of the New Zealand passerine genus Turnagra. Notornis 30(4): 319–336. PDF fulltext
  • Schlegel, Hermann (1866[3]): [Description of Turnagra tanagra]. Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde 3: 190.
  • Sopp, G. E. (1957): North Island Native Thrush or Pio-Pio (Turnagra capensis tanagra). Notornis 7(4): 101–102. PDF fulltext

Footnotes

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728820A94997902.en
    . Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  2. ^ see page 189 Medway, David G. (1968): Records of the Huia, North Island Thrush and North Island Kokako from the diaries of Joseph Robert Annabell (1857–1924) Notornis 15(3): 177–192.
  3. Naturalis
    will show why this date is correct, not the usually cited 1865.

External links

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